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He built a palace, and founded a town. And the palace, with its fine view over the gardens, reproduced the regularity and majesty that charmed the king. The immense avenues, that ended on either side in the marble court and royal chamber, seemed the prolonga- tion and the radiation of the master's glance, which seemed to fall upon everything and everybody. Even the gardens were artificial. Yet his influence formed the style and dominated the taste of courtly Europe for more than a century. Abso...lute Monarchy in Spain. Spain had already, during the course of the seventeenth century, displayed the disadvantages of absolute monarchy, exercised with unparalleled harshness and want of in- telligence. In one century, from 1598 to 1700, from Philip III. To Philip IV. And Charles II. , she had virtually descended all the steps THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. of decadence. She had lost her preponderance in Europe, part of her annexed provinces, and her population was weakened by the expulsion of 500, 000 Moors and by perpetual emigration to America.
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